Silent Witness

Episode aired Nov 3, 1957
TV-14
30m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

650

YOUR RATING

Dolores Hart in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A married professor kills the beautiful blackmailing student he's been having a sexual affair with in the presence of a baby.A married professor kills the beautiful blackmailing student he's been having a sexual affair with in the presence of a baby.A married professor kills the beautiful blackmailing student he's been having a sexual affair with in the presence of a baby.

Director
- Paul Henreid
Writers
- Robert C. Dennis
- Jeanne Barry
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

650

YOUR RATING

Director
- Paul Henreid
Writers
- Robert C. Dennis
- Jeanne Barry
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Dolores Hart retired from acting to become a nun.

Goofs
The detective postulates that Claudia must have let her murderer into the house since there was no sign of a break-in; therefore the killer must have been someone she knew like a fellow student or a boyfriend. This overlooks the fact that she was babysitting at somebody else's house, so the owners of the house could have let themselves in.

Quotes
[afterword]
Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is still in the jail cell] Well, you can't win them all. I understand that Don Mason was condemned to a cell
[gestures to his surroundings briefly]
Alfred Hitchcock: very much like this one.
[the camera pulls out as Hitchcock gets up to move a giant alphabet block on top of other blocks, revealing that he is actually dressed as a toddler in a giant baby playpen]
Alfred Hitchcock: And now, daddies and mommies, I think the time has come to lam out of here. Suppose you take this opportunity to escape, until next time of course.
[Hitchcock begins to climb up the blocks out of the playpen when the sirens start to wail; he stops to aim and fire a water pistol through the bars directly at the camera]

Soundtracks
Funeral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod

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Featured review

5/10

Could This Guy Be any Dumber?

I was fine with the two-timing professor and his little sociopath student fling. This story has been told a million times. The murder is certainly a solution since he has done everything he can to get his sorry butt out of this situation. He would have been a suspect (he had contact with the girl; she was next door when it happened) regardless of his stupid belief that the baby would turn him in once she started talking. There's an old joke about people who were taking French lessons so they would be able to understand their adopted French baby when she began to talk. When the investigator plants the absurd seed that the observances of an infant can be absorbed and articulated have no basis in any science that I know. What does the guy plan. Is he going to strangle the baby or poison it? He almost gets caught on the neighbor's porch, hovering over the child. I'm sorry. This is one of those episodes where the writer must have turned in his manuscript after thinking things over for a total of five minutes.